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Books by Martin Halliwell

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  • - Transatlantic Crosscurrents from William James to Oliver Sacks
    by Martin Halliwell
    £32.99 - 149.99

  • - Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970
    by Martin Halliwell
    £34.49

    Therapeutic Revolutions examines the evolving relationship between American medicine, psychiatry, and culture from World War II to the dawn of the 1970s. In this richly layered intellectual history, Martin Halliwell ranges from national politics, public reports, and health care debates to the ways in which film, literature, and the mass media provided cultural channels for shaping and challenging preconceptions about health and illness.

  • - The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film
    by Martin Halliwell
    £49.99 - 132.99

    Traces the concept of idiocy as it has developed in fiction and film in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing particularly on visual images, and argues that writers as diverse as Gustave Flaubert, Conrad, Steinbeck and Mistry, and filmmakers such as Kurosawa, Herzog and Huston have all been attracted to idiot figures.

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